ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 



TOP OT ARM. 



fRONT. 



TOP OF ARM. 



tLHO OF ARM. 



Fragment of Cross-head at Winwick, Lancashire. 



his death in battle with the Mercian Penda ; and applies to this well the 

 account of the Venerable Bede, who mentions the miracles attributed to the 

 earth carried from the place. But Mr. Romilly Allen considers the subject 

 to be the martyrdom of Isaiah : ^ Maserfield is generally located at Oswestry ; ^ 

 and phonetic science does not warrant the identification with Makerfield. 



At Walton on the HilP the existence of a cross is gleaned from the 

 pedestal alone, which was dug up in the churchyard. It is of three steps 

 carved in a single block, 3 feet square at the base, and is much timeworn. 



1 Allen, Christian Symbolism, p. 329. 



2 Worsley, Winwick (Lane, and Ches. Antiq. Soc), iv. 1886. 

 * Lane, and Ches. Hist. Soe. Trans. (1894), 194. 



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